Works the same way here with regular AP awards and Pulitzers. No shock that Vlad has his own version.
One difference, here we have not as a state, systematically
bought up, dismissed, or murdered journalists that one party disagrees with. Granted, money is certainly talking, but we have Soros and the Coch brothers with very different perspectives. We have Glen Beck and Bill Maher. We have Fox news and MSNBC. Granted, things could be better, but they could also be lots worse. Oh, and we have Free Republic and Huffington Post.